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A .foolish consistency is the
hobgoblin of little minds
adored by little statesmen and
philosophers & divines.
-Emerson
TheILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Eleven coeds vie
for Homecoming Queen title.
-see page 9
Vol. 72 Bloomington, Illinois, Friday, October 1, 1965 N Pr ay eidesfina lat ofoff
Dr. Charles Merrill Smith,
pastor of Wesley Methodist
Church, and Dr. Jerry Stone of
Wesleyan's religion department
discussed "The Future of the
Church" at Wesleyan's Metho-dist
Student Movement meeting
Sunday night.
Both panelists agreed that
the Church is facing a turning
point in its history. "There is a
great intellectual ferment in
the Church today, the like of
which I have not seen in all my
years as a minister and even
when I was going to college,"
said Dr. Smith.
Leaders of this "second refor-mation"
are theologians like
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who
preach a "religionless Christi-anity"
which Dr. Smith con-siders
a "fresh breeze blowing
through the musky corridors of
the Church." But by the time
the Church confronts burning
issues, he explained, no one is
interested any more. "We are
two theological revolutions be-hind
... some of us are still de-bating
Darwin."
Both men blamed the
Church's top-heavy institu-tional
structure for most of
its problems. "Even Church
renewal has become an insti-tuion
now," said Dr. Smith.
"I could preach anything ...
as long as I kept the money
flowing in and the statistics
at a good level."
Even Methodist-Evangelical
United Brethren union arouses
mixed feelings among modern
churchmen. "We're a big cor-poration.
Not as big as General
Motors, maybe, but we're big
.. we may become a bigger
edition of what we already
have," said Dr. Smith.
Both men hastened to point
out optimistic sides to church
renewal. Dr. Stone said that al-though
the church may not be
willing to "sacrifice its vested
interests as an institution and
as a reflection of society in or-der
to be totally involved in
matters of justice such as civil
rights, these issues may force
it to wake up."
Modern young people are
another revitalizing force. "I
hope you kids are not going
to put up with all of this
pious nonsense"! said Dr.
Smith. "The Church today is
more exciting-it is more
sheer fun! If you get on fire
with this thing and criticize
the Church in love, a few
dedicated people even in a
large congregation can make
all the difference."
Dr. Stone cautioned, though,
against "criticizing the Church
in ... cynicism." Reformation
"can come from within the
structure of the Church," no
matter how hopeless correction
may seem.
Neither man ventured to say
what the Church may be like
next year or even tomorrow. No
change in the parish structure
is foreseen. "The institution is
sick," said Dr. Smith. "I don't
know what will cure it, but we
do need a doctor."
Summing up, Dr. Stone em-phasized
need for personal
effort. "We think of the
Church as a place on the cor-ner
we GO TO-We must
also come to think of the
Church as a place from which
we GO OUT."
The meeting was concluded
by a worship service led by
Bruce Baker and Diane Went-worth.
Nominations were made in
the business meeting for two
freshman representatives to
MSM Council. Nominees are:
Sharon Kumler, Sally Firestone,
Lyn Coleman, David Craft, and
Linda Peterson.
Candidates hit campai n trails;
Election period ends onday SM panel challenges Church
to face today's reali ssues Judy Paxton piled up a 71-50
vote advantage over Lenora
Cobden in the race for secre-tary.
Eleven votes separate Arlyn
Freytag and Judy Nystrom in
the treasurer's contest, 68-57.
In another close race Phil
Ballard leads Mike Coates by
six votes for the presidency of
the junior class. Ballard has a
shoestring 67-61 lead over in-cumbent
Coates.
Bob Crites has a 72-45 gap
over Rose Osterman in the con-test
for junior vice-president.
Another battle is looming in
the foreground for junior class
secretary. Cheryl Leonard holds
a 60-59 vote separation over
Sherry Norris.
Roger Taylor, running unop-posed,
collected 125 votes for
treasurer. Twenty-four write-in
votes were cast.
Seniors same thrdughiwv ith a
38.9% vote to give Mike Har-vey
a 62-42 margin over Rhett
Dawson in the contest for pres-ident.
Larry Bross tallied 91 in the
vice-president's slot. Bross was
also running un-opposed.
Nada Conway emerged com.
fortably above Bob Seabright in
the contest for secretary. Con-way
has a 43 vote advantage,
69-26.
Dick Healy received 93 tal-lies
as the sole petitioner for
the treasurer's slot.
Students in Action, a com-prehensive
booklet explaining
the Senate program for the
coming year, is being distrib-uted
on campus today.
Public Relations Commission
chairman Bob Field presented
the first copy of the booklet to
Senate President Dick Muirhead
at ,last Sunday's Senate meeting.
Field hopes the booklet will
serve a twofold purpose: first
to define the functions of Sen-ate
commissions and second to
stimulate interested students to
serve on these commissions.
Besides containing articles on
each of the seven comimissions
the illustrated booklet also pre-
Polls oneCMo.n day
Final elections for freshmen
S e n at e representatives and
freshman, sophomore, junior
and senior class officers will be
held Monday, Oct. 4 in Me-morial
Center from 8 a.m. to
7 p.m.
............ a.i........i ...... m.i...i ......
sents articles dealing with spec-ial
events such as Homecoming,
Dad's Day, Mother's Day and
Fall Festival.
Most of the work involved
with the booklet was done dur-ing
the summer with final addi-tions
and corrections made as
soon as the final Senate pro-grams
were completed.
Students in Action was edited
by Jon Sweet with Bill Joyce
serving as a special consultant.
The photography work was done
by Rick Kelsey, University
photographer, and Mr. Henry
Etter, director of University in-formation.
Student Senate approved a
Religious Activities Commis-sion-
sponsored proposal Sunday
to elect a co-chairman for a
committee for the planning of
a coffeehouse.
According to the proposal,
that co-chairman selected from
petitions submitted, together
with a co-chairman appointed
by RAC, would select the com-mittee
subject to the approval
of the Senate.
This action moves RAC chair-man
Gregory Dell to believe
that if all goes as expected, the
coffeehouse would be in opera-tion
by the end of this semester.
Dell said that he hoped any-one
interested in the salaried
position of coffeehouse direc-tor
would petition for the co-chairmanship
because, as Dell
put it, "we would want the di-rector
to have a thorough
knowledge of the project."
Dell also said that both stu--
dent and faculty opinion of the
proposed project is high. He
cited an informal poll taken at
Pfeiffer Hall by a student sena-tor
which showed that only two
of the 125 women living there
were opposed to a campus cof-feehouse.
Any final approval of the
coffeehouse must come from
the offices of both Chaplain Wil-liam
White and the Dean of
Students.
Dell called university Busi-ness
Manager Philip W. Kasch's
suggestion that the new addi-tion
to Memorial Center might
have space adequate for the de-sired
project "highly unfeasi-ble."
Dell said that both the lo-cation
and atmosphere would
be lacking.
Under the proposal the cof-feehouse
would be located at
the corner of Park and Beecher
streets in the first building east
of Memorial Gymnasium. The
structure is owned by the uni-versity.
Barely half the campus turn-ed
out at the polls last Wednes-day
to select a final slate of of-ficers
for Monday's election.
Scott Anderson, Jr. and Bill
Boehlke received the freshman
primary endorsement for pres-ident.
Anderson led Boehlke,
95-70.
Leading the freshman class
slate, Jim Brown polled 118
votes for vice president, follow-ed
by Chuck Gleeson with 86.
The secretary's race was clos-er,
with Penne Bouch edging
Sally Jo Peck, 68-67.
Robert Sweet will face Guy
Gebhardt in the final race for
treasurer. Sweet collected 89
endorsements while Gebhardt
had to settle for 77.
Because of a tie in the sena-torial
race, five contestants will
be competing for two positions
in the final run-offs. Tom Bur-mrheister
led the balloting with
61 followed closely by Tim Al-len
with 57. Gloria Dell, Gary
Gearhart and Linda Peterson
tied with 51 votes.
Durrie Monsma and Joe An-derson
will be campaigning for
president of the sophomore
class. Monsma has taken the
primary lead with 77 votes
while Anderson has 67.
Jim Bremer will be challeng-ing
Dick Frey for the vice-president's
slot. Frey has a
70-49 advantage going into the
finals.
Bob Field (r) presents booklet to Dick Muirhead.
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A .foolish consistency is the
hobgoblin of little minds
adored by little statesmen and
philosophers & divines.
-Emerson
TheILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Eleven coeds vie
for Homecoming Queen title.
-see page 9
Vol. 72 Bloomington, Illinois, Friday, October 1, 1965 N Pr ay eidesfina lat ofoff
Dr. Charles Merrill Smith,
pastor of Wesley Methodist
Church, and Dr. Jerry Stone of
Wesleyan's religion department
discussed "The Future of the
Church" at Wesleyan's Metho-dist
Student Movement meeting
Sunday night.
Both panelists agreed that
the Church is facing a turning
point in its history. "There is a
great intellectual ferment in
the Church today, the like of
which I have not seen in all my
years as a minister and even
when I was going to college,"
said Dr. Smith.
Leaders of this "second refor-mation"
are theologians like
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who
preach a "religionless Christi-anity"
which Dr. Smith con-siders
a "fresh breeze blowing
through the musky corridors of
the Church." But by the time
the Church confronts burning
issues, he explained, no one is
interested any more. "We are
two theological revolutions be-hind
... some of us are still de-bating
Darwin."
Both men blamed the
Church's top-heavy institu-tional
structure for most of
its problems. "Even Church
renewal has become an insti-tuion
now," said Dr. Smith.
"I could preach anything ...
as long as I kept the money
flowing in and the statistics
at a good level."
Even Methodist-Evangelical
United Brethren union arouses
mixed feelings among modern
churchmen. "We're a big cor-poration.
Not as big as General
Motors, maybe, but we're big
.. we may become a bigger
edition of what we already
have," said Dr. Smith.
Both men hastened to point
out optimistic sides to church
renewal. Dr. Stone said that al-though
the church may not be
willing to "sacrifice its vested
interests as an institution and
as a reflection of society in or-der
to be totally involved in
matters of justice such as civil
rights, these issues may force
it to wake up."
Modern young people are
another revitalizing force. "I
hope you kids are not going
to put up with all of this
pious nonsense"! said Dr.
Smith. "The Church today is
more exciting-it is more
sheer fun! If you get on fire
with this thing and criticize
the Church in love, a few
dedicated people even in a
large congregation can make
all the difference."
Dr. Stone cautioned, though,
against "criticizing the Church
in ... cynicism." Reformation
"can come from within the
structure of the Church," no
matter how hopeless correction
may seem.
Neither man ventured to say
what the Church may be like
next year or even tomorrow. No
change in the parish structure
is foreseen. "The institution is
sick," said Dr. Smith. "I don't
know what will cure it, but we
do need a doctor."
Summing up, Dr. Stone em-phasized
need for personal
effort. "We think of the
Church as a place on the cor-ner
we GO TO-We must
also come to think of the
Church as a place from which
we GO OUT."
The meeting was concluded
by a worship service led by
Bruce Baker and Diane Went-worth.
Nominations were made in
the business meeting for two
freshman representatives to
MSM Council. Nominees are:
Sharon Kumler, Sally Firestone,
Lyn Coleman, David Craft, and
Linda Peterson.
Candidates hit campai n trails;
Election period ends onday SM panel challenges Church
to face today's reali ssues Judy Paxton piled up a 71-50
vote advantage over Lenora
Cobden in the race for secre-tary.
Eleven votes separate Arlyn
Freytag and Judy Nystrom in
the treasurer's contest, 68-57.
In another close race Phil
Ballard leads Mike Coates by
six votes for the presidency of
the junior class. Ballard has a
shoestring 67-61 lead over in-cumbent
Coates.
Bob Crites has a 72-45 gap
over Rose Osterman in the con-test
for junior vice-president.
Another battle is looming in
the foreground for junior class
secretary. Cheryl Leonard holds
a 60-59 vote separation over
Sherry Norris.
Roger Taylor, running unop-posed,
collected 125 votes for
treasurer. Twenty-four write-in
votes were cast.
Seniors same thrdughiwv ith a
38.9% vote to give Mike Har-vey
a 62-42 margin over Rhett
Dawson in the contest for pres-ident.
Larry Bross tallied 91 in the
vice-president's slot. Bross was
also running un-opposed.
Nada Conway emerged com.
fortably above Bob Seabright in
the contest for secretary. Con-way
has a 43 vote advantage,
69-26.
Dick Healy received 93 tal-lies
as the sole petitioner for
the treasurer's slot.
Students in Action, a com-prehensive
booklet explaining
the Senate program for the
coming year, is being distrib-uted
on campus today.
Public Relations Commission
chairman Bob Field presented
the first copy of the booklet to
Senate President Dick Muirhead
at ,last Sunday's Senate meeting.
Field hopes the booklet will
serve a twofold purpose: first
to define the functions of Sen-ate
commissions and second to
stimulate interested students to
serve on these commissions.
Besides containing articles on
each of the seven comimissions
the illustrated booklet also pre-
Polls oneCMo.n day
Final elections for freshmen
S e n at e representatives and
freshman, sophomore, junior
and senior class officers will be
held Monday, Oct. 4 in Me-morial
Center from 8 a.m. to
7 p.m.
............ a.i........i ...... m.i...i ......
sents articles dealing with spec-ial
events such as Homecoming,
Dad's Day, Mother's Day and
Fall Festival.
Most of the work involved
with the booklet was done dur-ing
the summer with final addi-tions
and corrections made as
soon as the final Senate pro-grams
were completed.
Students in Action was edited
by Jon Sweet with Bill Joyce
serving as a special consultant.
The photography work was done
by Rick Kelsey, University
photographer, and Mr. Henry
Etter, director of University in-formation.
Student Senate approved a
Religious Activities Commis-sion-
sponsored proposal Sunday
to elect a co-chairman for a
committee for the planning of
a coffeehouse.
According to the proposal,
that co-chairman selected from
petitions submitted, together
with a co-chairman appointed
by RAC, would select the com-mittee
subject to the approval
of the Senate.
This action moves RAC chair-man
Gregory Dell to believe
that if all goes as expected, the
coffeehouse would be in opera-tion
by the end of this semester.
Dell said that he hoped any-one
interested in the salaried
position of coffeehouse direc-tor
would petition for the co-chairmanship
because, as Dell
put it, "we would want the di-rector
to have a thorough
knowledge of the project."
Dell also said that both stu--
dent and faculty opinion of the
proposed project is high. He
cited an informal poll taken at
Pfeiffer Hall by a student sena-tor
which showed that only two
of the 125 women living there
were opposed to a campus cof-feehouse.
Any final approval of the
coffeehouse must come from
the offices of both Chaplain Wil-liam
White and the Dean of
Students.
Dell called university Busi-ness
Manager Philip W. Kasch's
suggestion that the new addi-tion
to Memorial Center might
have space adequate for the de-sired
project "highly unfeasi-ble."
Dell said that both the lo-cation
and atmosphere would
be lacking.
Under the proposal the cof-feehouse
would be located at
the corner of Park and Beecher
streets in the first building east
of Memorial Gymnasium. The
structure is owned by the uni-versity.
Barely half the campus turn-ed
out at the polls last Wednes-day
to select a final slate of of-ficers
for Monday's election.
Scott Anderson, Jr. and Bill
Boehlke received the freshman
primary endorsement for pres-ident.
Anderson led Boehlke,
95-70.
Leading the freshman class
slate, Jim Brown polled 118
votes for vice president, follow-ed
by Chuck Gleeson with 86.
The secretary's race was clos-er,
with Penne Bouch edging
Sally Jo Peck, 68-67.
Robert Sweet will face Guy
Gebhardt in the final race for
treasurer. Sweet collected 89
endorsements while Gebhardt
had to settle for 77.
Because of a tie in the sena-torial
race, five contestants will
be competing for two positions
in the final run-offs. Tom Bur-mrheister
led the balloting with
61 followed closely by Tim Al-len
with 57. Gloria Dell, Gary
Gearhart and Linda Peterson
tied with 51 votes.
Durrie Monsma and Joe An-derson
will be campaigning for
president of the sophomore
class. Monsma has taken the
primary lead with 77 votes
while Anderson has 67.
Jim Bremer will be challeng-ing
Dick Frey for the vice-president's
slot. Frey has a
70-49 advantage going into the
finals.
Bob Field (r) presents booklet to Dick Muirhead.
JMBER 4
rs
Book~et presentssentestory
Senaete aoves coffeehouse